My Lenovo is starting to take a little longer to boot up and I was wanting to run SpinRige to give it a refresh, but it does not support BIOS/Legacy nor Virtualization (so I cannot go with the VirtualBox option). Do you think creating an image of my hard drive and then restoring the hard drive with that newly created image would give it a refresh? Also wondering if anyone has had any luck with the Windows Optimize option inside the default Defragment and Optimize program in Windows 10.
Cannot run SpinRite on my system, but trying to refresh my onboard SSD
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What's the CPU in your Lenovo? It might be old enough that the BIOS is the only mode it supports, so you can't run OS software that runs only on UEFI. You talked about not having virtualization, so I'm wondering if you do have a CPU with UEFI only, it might be like an Atom or Celeron class CPU.
Either way, for it running slow, it wouldn't hurt to do the imaging thing. Depending on the software, it might just be the same as the level that reads and writes the data back, at least on the blocks that have data (you should do a trim to be safe after you write the image)
Either way, for it running slow, it wouldn't hurt to do the imaging thing. Depending on the software, it might just be the same as the level that reads and writes the data back, at least on the blocks that have data (you should do a trim to be safe after you write the image)
Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-10885H CPU @ 2.40GHz 2.40 GHz. The best I can tell it only supports UEFI and no virtualization. I have been using Macrium Reflect to make backup images of my laptop for years, now trying to work out the kinks in actually restoring it from one of these.
Your computer might have always-enabled virtualization.
You can always give a try to VirtualBox, worse case it just won’t start.
It definitely supports virtualization, so maybe have a look again and see if there is an option for CSM to support legacy booting. It wouldn't be surprising if it doesn't support it, given the CPU is from around 2020 when Intel's goal was to eliminate legacy booting, but a lot of devices have older BIOS/UEFI and do still support it anyway despite Intel's goals. You didn't mention the model of the computer, so there is no way for anyone here to even guess about such support.
See the first part of the multipart thread on running SpinRite on a UEFI system from within VirtualBox:
https://forums.grc.com/threads/how-to-run-spinrite-on-a-uefi-only-machine-part-1-of-5.1613/
Before you start, you can download the GRC utility Securable which will tell you if Virtualization is turned on (and with a CPU as modern as a 10th gen Intel Core, I would bet that it is):
https://www.grc.com/securable.htm
https://forums.grc.com/threads/how-to-run-spinrite-on-a-uefi-only-machine-part-1-of-5.1613/
Before you start, you can download the GRC utility Securable which will tell you if Virtualization is turned on (and with a CPU as modern as a 10th gen Intel Core, I would bet that it is):
https://www.grc.com/securable.htm
You know I was thinking that it should have it and after your post I dug into the bios some more and turns out I had to disable Kernel DMA Protection. Once I did that it gave me the options to enable virtualization. It will probably be a week or more before I can get back to working on this. Thanks for your help!
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